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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bath and North East Somerset Council. Also known as B&NES, BathNES and BANES.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bath and North East Somerset website
68,195 approved · 9,581 refused · 6,222 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Nov 1997 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ashton House , Park Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XP
Received 5 Sept 202351 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BW
Received 5 Sept 2023Hope House, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Aug 2023Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Sept 202351 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XL
Received 5 Sept 202319 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 5 Sept 202320 Rackvernal Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2UG
Received 5 Sept 202381 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JE
Received 5 Sept 2023Kilowatt House , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HW
Received 5 Sept 2023The Crate , 5 High Street, Woolley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AR
Received 5 Sept 2023Alpine House , 79 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LL
Received 5 Sept 2023Ground Floor, 93 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NE
Received 5 Sept 202342 Devonshire Buildings, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SU
Received 5 Sept 2023Crocombe Lodge , Crocombe, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0JS
Received 5 Sept 2023Mulberry House , Summer Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EU
Received 5 Sept 2023Inglenook Cottage , 4 High Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AY
Received 6 Sept 2023Twerton Villa, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Sept 20236 Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LQ
Received 5 Sept 2023Platinum Accident Repair Centre (renrod Limited), 22 - 24 Cheltenham Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EX
Received 6 Sept 20239 Henrietta Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LZ
Received 6 Sept 20232 Mill Cottages, The Shallows, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EY
Received 6 Sept 2023High March, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Sept 202343 High Bannerdown, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JZ
Received 6 Sept 202385 Sladebrook Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LP
Received 7 Sept 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bath and North East Somerset Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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